Suzanne Jones and Audra Heaslip are professors at Collin College in
McKinney, Texas. Or, rather, they wereuntil
<https://www.keranews.org/education/2021-02-01/two-collin-college-professors-say-theyre-being-dismissed-after-criticizing-covid-19-policies>January
28, 2021. That afternoon, college administrators informed both of them,
one after the other, that their employment contracts would not be renewed.
“As far as I know, I’ve never had a single student complaint in over a
decade — which is rare, almost everyone has at least one,” says Heaslip,
a humanities professor. She adds that she’s “a go-to person for
volunteering and for leadership” on campus, and has previously been
asked to mentor other faculty. Jones, for her part, says that the only
mark on her record came from her signing an open letter to the Dallas
City Council in 2017 that argued for theremoval
<https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2017/08/18/dallas-4-black-city-council-members-say-confederate-statues-must-and-will-be-removed-after-process/>of
Confederate statues, though, she adds, she was one of a dozen Collin
College faculty members to sign onto the letter.
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/higher-education-covid-19-collin-college
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